atlas helped bradley, that was obvious. yes tim has always been world class but you can see his punches shorter and more precise. he believes in teddy, you can see it in his eyes, a fighter that believes in his trainer is dangerous because his focus is through the roof. this performance i believe makes him the top candidate for pacquiao's last fight.
rios said hes retired because hes never been stopped. he will fight again. no weight excuses, he was outclassed by an elite fighter.
I can see the smile of Bob Arum...$$$ Pacman vs Bradley 3.
No doubt that that was the hope all along, tbh.
Give Pacquiao that final payday, transition what's left of Pacquiao's heat to a quality fighter, lean on HBO to make sure that Bradley gets 2-3 tv dates each year, and then start to run his mouth (harping about Thurman/Brook/Garcia/Porter/Berto/Spence/etc are all too chicken**** to fight his 147 wrecking machine), telling his story to any boxing source willing to listen.
Crawford gets the opportunity to establish his dominance at 140, all the money stays within the Top Rank umbrella, and Arum doesn't have to open his books up to anyone.
And just to think, so many people underestimated Bradley's power.
Great performance by Bradley.
Bradley's power still isn't all that impressive, from what things sound like; he's simply, under Teddy Atlas, fully embraced what his style has always supposed to have been.
Roy Jones made a comment in a video that I recall. He called Bradley's style being like that of a hyena; he'll keep on you, at a pace just beyond a fast jog, and wear you out, stepping if any need to protect himself comes up, only to jump back on you. For most fighters, under that amount of sustained pressure, they're going to fall to **** or simply fight to not get put out.
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